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. >> reporter: eben alexander had been stricken with an extremely rare and virulent e. coli meningitis infection that was ravaging his brain, plunging him into a coma. >> i mean, i was trying to die. >> reporter: in fact, doctors gave him almost no chance to live and told his family if he did survive, he'd be brain damaged for the rest of his life. >> his eyes were just off and cocked just like no one was there. >> reporter: eben believes holly is right. he wasn't there. did you go to heaven? >> yes. in every sense of the word, that's what my -- what my experience showed me. >> reporter: his first recollection, he says, was being a speck of pure awareness in a dark and murky underworld. >> and then i was rescued by this beautiful spinning white light that had a melody, indescribably beautiful melody with it that opened up into a bright valley, just an incredible, rich, ultra-real world of indescribable complexity. >> reporter: god was there, he says, and he encountered him through an orb of brilliant light. he soared on the wing of a butterfly with a beautiful young wom
. >> reporter: eben alexander had been stricken with an extremely rare and virulent e. coli meningitis infection that was ravaging his brain, plunging him into a coma. >> i mean, i was trying to die. >> reporter: in fact, doctors gave him almost no chance to live and told his family if he did survive, he'd be brain damaged for the rest of his life. >> his eyes were just off and cocked just like no one was there. >> reporter: eben believes holly is right. he wasn't...
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meet the doctor who's called a medical miracle, eben alexander. as the harvard educated neurosurgeon, dr. eben alexander was defined by science and logic, dismissing all claims of the afterlife but four years ago a rare bacterial meningitis left him in a coma on the brink of death. >> at 4:30 a.m. on monday november 10, 2008, i almost died. i woke up that morning with an extremely intense headache and two or three hours my brain started to shut down and that's when i lost consciousness completely and went into coma. i was gone from this world. i saw something that was nothing short of a miracle. i saw heaven. dr. oz: what he experienced not only spawned his book "proof of heaven," it also redirected his entire belief system. >> i was in a very lovely, bright valley with puffy pink white clouds and was traveling on a
meet the doctor who's called a medical miracle, eben alexander. as the harvard educated neurosurgeon, dr. eben alexander was defined by science and logic, dismissing all claims of the afterlife but four years ago a rare bacterial meningitis left him in a coma on the brink of death. >> at 4:30 a.m. on monday november 10, 2008, i almost died. i woke up that morning with an extremely intense headache and two or three hours my brain started to shut down and that's when i lost consciousness...
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. >> reporter: a mild afternoon in lynchburg, virginia and eben and holly alexander are at a high school soccer camp cheering on their son. they are a perfectly ordinary family with an extraordinary story. they have been touched by a medical miracle and maybe more. >> i mean, it was impossible after impossible after impossible. >> reporter: eben alexander, a harvard-trained neurosurgeon who was a skeptic when came to religion survived a near-death experience and he now carries the memory of what he says was a journey to heaven. a journey that all his scientific training cannot explain. on november 10th, 2008 eben awoke with a searing headache. when his wife holly checked in on him he was having a tremendous seizure. >> i said, say something. he didn't say anything so i called 911. >> reporter: eben was rushed to the hospital. >> the only word woe could truly make out was help and the rest of his verbalization was purely screaming. >> reporter: he had been stricken with an extremely rare and virulent e. coli meningitis infection that was raf rajjing his brain plunging him into a coma. >>
. >> reporter: a mild afternoon in lynchburg, virginia and eben and holly alexander are at a high school soccer camp cheering on their son. they are a perfectly ordinary family with an extraordinary story. they have been touched by a medical miracle and maybe more. >> i mean, it was impossible after impossible after impossible. >> reporter: eben alexander, a harvard-trained neurosurgeon who was a skeptic when came to religion survived a near-death experience and he now carries...
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eben alexander is a harvard neurosurgeon who nearly died four years ago when a ferocious e. coli meningitis infection attacked his brain and plunged him deep into a coma for a week. brain scans showed that all of the parts of his brain that make us conscious, thought, memory and understanding, were not functioning. >> they should be a very rich network of them all through both sides, and yet we don't really see that because they're all filled with thoughts. >> reporter: doctors gave him up for dead, but after a week, eben alexander awoke, he says, with a wondrous memory. did you go to heaven? >> yes. i was rescued by this beautiful spinning white light that had a melody, indescribably beautiful melody with it that opened up into a bright valley. >> reporter: god was there, he says, as a vast presence of love, and eben says there was a young woman who soared across heaven with him on a butterfly wing and who gave him a message to take back. >> the concepts came straight into my mind. "you are loved. you are cherished. there's nothing you have to fear. there's nothing you can
eben alexander is a harvard neurosurgeon who nearly died four years ago when a ferocious e. coli meningitis infection attacked his brain and plunged him deep into a coma for a week. brain scans showed that all of the parts of his brain that make us conscious, thought, memory and understanding, were not functioning. >> they should be a very rich network of them all through both sides, and yet we don't really see that because they're all filled with thoughts. >> reporter: doctors gave...
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eben alexander is a harvard neurosurgeon who nearly died four years ago when a ferocious e. coli meningitis infection attacked his brain and plunged him deep into a coma for a week. brain scans that show the parts that give us consciousness, thought and memory were not functioning. >> they should be a very rich network of them all through both sides. yet we don't really see them because they're all filled with pus. >> reporter: doctors gave him up for dead. but after a week, eben alexander awoke with, he says, a wondrous memory. did you go to heaven? >> yes. i was rescued by this beautiful spinning white light that had a melody, indescribably beautiful melody with it that opened up into a bright valley. >> reporter: god was there he says as a vast presence of love and eben says there was a young woman who soared across heaven with him on a butterfly wing and gave him a message to take back. >> the concepts came straight into my mind. you are loved, you are cherished, there is nothing you have to fear, there is nothing you can do wrong. >> reporter: and that woman, after he r
eben alexander is a harvard neurosurgeon who nearly died four years ago when a ferocious e. coli meningitis infection attacked his brain and plunged him deep into a coma for a week. brain scans that show the parts that give us consciousness, thought and memory were not functioning. >> they should be a very rich network of them all through both sides. yet we don't really see them because they're all filled with pus. >> reporter: doctors gave him up for dead. but after a week, eben...